Welcome back to another exciting episode of honey bee removal videos with Yappy Beeman.
I'm happy to share what turned out to be a really great removal not only for me but for a sweet customer who was happy to save a colony of bees the right way. It's understandable that finding bees in a void of your home can be extremely scary. With all the bad press out there about "killer bees", and lack of knowledge about bees in general, its hard to know what to do or who to call to have the situation resolved safely. I hope through my videos that people will see there ae ways to safely manage situations like this.
I got the call about the bees that were found under the customers porch and was glad to respond. I found a nice colony of bees that had actually only been there for a day or two. What's interesting is that bees send scouts to check a spot they want to make a new home at and will leave guard bees there to keep other colonies from trying to move in to it. I believe that had been seeing those scouts for a few days before the actual colony had moved in for a total of about a week before my visit.
The bees were great. They were in rebuild mode and hadn't even had time for the queen to get back to laying eggs yet. That could be why they were less defensive than they could have been. I didn't take a single sting and as you can see, they were even nice enough to hang out for the camera and the homeowner. We made this one just a bit more special and let her name the queen.

Honeybees can always be dangerous and it is not recommended to attempt to remove them with experience with bees or construction knowledge.
I hope you enjoy this little bit of fun. I enjoy your feedback in the comments and thank you for taking the time to check out my channel. Until the next time, enjoy the show.

Yappy Beeman is a professional bee remover performing live honey bee removals in Alabama as "Alabama Bee Rescue" and relocates them to apiaries away from residential areas so they can rebuild and thrive as a honey bee colony producing honey. Yappy is an Alabama Beekeepers association member that has performed over 1000 live bee removals. Yappy with the help of his great friends Jpthebeeman, 628 Dirtrooster bees, Jeff Horchoff and many others, I have learned many skills to remove bee swarms and honey bee colonies safely for the bees and home owners alike.

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Here is a little bee educational material for ya.
Africanized honey bees (known colloquially as "killer bees") are hybrids between European stock and the East African lowland subspecies A. m. scutellata; they are often more aggressive than European honey bees and do not create as much of a honey surplus, but are more resistant to disease and are better foragers.[23] Accidentally released from quarantine in Brazil, they have spread to North America and constitute a pest in some regions. However, these strains do not overwinter well, so they are not often found in the colder, more northern parts of North America. The original breeding experiment for which the East African lowland honey bees were brought to Brazil in the first place has continued (though not as originally intended). Novel hybrid strains of domestic and re-domesticated Africanized honey bees combine high resilience to tropical conditions and good yields. They are popular among beekeepers in Brazil.
Honey bees appear to have their center of origin in South and Southeast Asia (including the Philippines), as all the extant species except Apis mellifera are native to that region. Notably, living representatives of the earliest lineages to diverge (Apis florea and Apis andreniformis) have their center of origin there.[7]

The first Apis bees appear in the fossil record at the Eocene-Oligocene boundary (34 mya), in European deposits. The origin of these prehistoric honey bees does not necessarily indicate Europe as the place of origin of the genus, only that the bees were present in Europe. Few fossil deposits are known from South Asia, the suspected region of honey bee origin, and fewer still have been thoroughly studied.

No Apis species existed in the New World during human times before the introduction of A. mellifera by Europeans. Only one fossil species is documented from the New World, Apis nearctica, known from a single 14 million-year-old specimen from Nevada.[8]

The close relatives of modern honey bees – e.g., bumblebees and stingless bees – are also social to some degree, and social behavior seems a plesiomorphic trait that predates the origin of the genus. Among the extant members of Apis, the more basal species make single, exposed combs, while the more recently evolved species nest in cavities and have multiple combs, which has greatly facilitated their domestication.